Merle Goldman Merle Dorothy Rosenblatt Goldman (March 12, 1931 – November 16, 2023) was an American historian and sinologist of modern China.
Bio
Merle Goldman (戈德曼) is the author of a number of books on modern Chinese history and culture. Her last two books, China’s Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent (1981) and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China (1994), were selected by the New York Times Book Review as among the notable books of their respective years. The latter book was also selected by the American Association of Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, as the best book on government published in 1994. She also has edited five books ranging from a discussion of Chinese culture in the early decades of the twentieth century to Science and Technology in Post-Mao China. Her latest research is on “From Comrade to Citizen in the People’s Republic of China: The Struggle for Political Rights in Post-Mao China.” She has published over fifty articles for scholarly journals and also has written for the New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Center. She was a member of the United States delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights (1993-94) and a member of the Presidential Commission on Establishing Radio Free Asia. In 1982, she received the Radcliffe Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievements.
Research interests: modern Chinese history, including political reform and the struggle for political rights in reform era China; history of Chinese intellectuals and literary dissent.
Selected Publications
Books
Literary Dissent in Communist China, Harvard University Press, 1967; Atheneum paperback, 1970
China’s Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent, Harvard University Press, 1981*; paperback, 1987
Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Decade, Harvard University Press, 1994*; paperback, 1995
China: A New History. Enlarged Edition, coauthored with John K. Fairbank, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, 2005 *Selected as “notable books” by The New York Times, 1981 and 1994.
Edited Books
Editor, Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era, Harvard University Press, 1977; paperback, 1985
China’s Intellectuals and the State: In Search of a New Relationship in the People’s Republic of China, a Conference Volume, edited with an introduction, “Uncertain Change,” Council on East Asian Publications, Harvard University, 1987
Co-editor, Science and Technology in Post-Mao China, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1989
Ideas Across Cultures, Essays on Chinese thought in honor of Benjamin Schwartz, coedited with Paul Cohen and introduction written with Paul Cohen, Harvard University Press, 1990
Fairbank Remembered, co-edited with Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, 1992
The Paradox of China’s Reforms, co-edited with Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University Press, 1999
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, co-edited, Harvard University Press, 2000
Intellectual History of Modern China, co-edited, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China, co-edited, Harvard University Press, 2002
Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China, co-edited with Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University Press, 2007
Media
Sweet Tea, The Atlantic, 2006
A Rule Of Law In China?, Forbes, 2007
从刘宾雁到胡舒立（二）, Financial Times 中文网, 2009
Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing, Wall Street Journal, 2014
时报档案: 2005年刘宾雁讣告, New York Times 纽约时报中文网, 2016
China’s rehabilitation of Confucius, The Boston Globe, 2020
From Sneevliet to Xi: How Chinese communism has endured and evolved over 100 years, SupChina, 2021
Xi Jinping critique Mao et Deng Xiaping, Le Monde, 2021
Bio
Merle Goldman (戈德曼) is the author of a number of books on modern Chinese history and culture. Her last two books, China’s Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent (1981) and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China (1994), were selected by the New York Times Book Review as among the notable books of their respective years. The latter book was also selected by the American Association of Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, as the best book on government published in 1994. She also has edited five books ranging from a discussion of Chinese culture in the early decades of the twentieth century to Science and Technology in Post-Mao China. Her latest research is on “From Comrade to Citizen in the People’s Republic of China: The Struggle for Political Rights in Post-Mao China.” She has published over fifty articles for scholarly journals and also has written for the New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Center. She was a member of the United States delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights (1993-94) and a member of the Presidential Commission on Establishing Radio Free Asia. In 1982, she received the Radcliffe Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievements.
Research interests: modern Chinese history, including political reform and the struggle for political rights in reform era China; history of Chinese intellectuals and literary dissent.
Selected Publications
Books
Literary Dissent in Communist China, Harvard University Press, 1967; Atheneum paperback, 1970
China’s Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent, Harvard University Press, 1981*; paperback, 1987
Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Decade, Harvard University Press, 1994*; paperback, 1995
China: A New History. Enlarged Edition, coauthored with John K. Fairbank, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, 2005 *Selected as “notable books” by The New York Times, 1981 and 1994.
Edited Books
Editor, Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era, Harvard University Press, 1977; paperback, 1985
China’s Intellectuals and the State: In Search of a New Relationship in the People’s Republic of China, a Conference Volume, edited with an introduction, “Uncertain Change,” Council on East Asian Publications, Harvard University, 1987
Co-editor, Science and Technology in Post-Mao China, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1989
Ideas Across Cultures, Essays on Chinese thought in honor of Benjamin Schwartz, coedited with Paul Cohen and introduction written with Paul Cohen, Harvard University Press, 1990
Fairbank Remembered, co-edited with Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, 1992
The Paradox of China’s Reforms, co-edited with Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University Press, 1999
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, co-edited, Harvard University Press, 2000
Intellectual History of Modern China, co-edited, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China, co-edited, Harvard University Press, 2002
Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China, co-edited with Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University Press, 2007
Media
Sweet Tea, The Atlantic, 2006
A Rule Of Law In China?, Forbes, 2007
从刘宾雁到胡舒立（二）, Financial Times 中文网, 2009
Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing, Wall Street Journal, 2014
时报档案: 2005年刘宾雁讣告, New York Times 纽约时报中文网, 2016
China’s rehabilitation of Confucius, The Boston Globe, 2020
From Sneevliet to Xi: How Chinese communism has endured and evolved over 100 years, SupChina, 2021
Xi Jinping critique Mao et Deng Xiaping, Le Monde, 2021
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